Cuissette

//kwisɛt// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small or light cuisse. rare

    "The cuissettes are in several pieces and covered by cuissarts. The upper edges, in this instructive specimen of plate armour, of the pauldrons, are turned up so as in some degree to protect the neck, which evidently gave rise to […]"

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cuissecuissetquisset

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"The cuissettes are in several pieces and covered by cuissarts. The upper edges, in this instructive specimen of plate armour, of the pauldrons, are turned up so as in some degree to protect the neck, which evidently gave rise to […]"

Etymology

From Middle English quischete, Old French cuissete (modern French cuissette).

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